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    Estimating 2019 - A Brave New World?

    July 16, 2019
    Preparing a solid, coherent estimate is crucial.
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    Do We Have a Trade...or Don’t We?

    April 2, 2019
    ! I want our trade to become vibrant again. I want new blood to come into it and to be proud of their chosen craft.
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    ‘That’s Not How We Used to Do It’

    March 16, 2019
    There has always been a certain ‘friction’ between new journeymen and the ‘old school’ guys about how things could and should be done.
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    Estimating and Vetting Employees in 2019

    Feb. 5, 2019
    You simply have to be creative in how you price your jobs and estimate your labor.
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    An Emerging Trend in the Workforce

    Jan. 11, 2019
    Here we are in January of 2019, and we still, many of us, can’t man our job sites or even find people to train.

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    The articles collected here will give you guidance on how to build your brand into something respected, depended on, and instantly recognized.
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    Trade Technology Then and Now

    Sept. 5, 2018
    The inception of the “digital age” has wrought changes to our world that even the most forward-thinking nerds could not have envisioned.
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    Does Quality Matter Anymore?

    Aug. 20, 2018
    Some of the solutions to the plumbing problems folks have come up with run the gamut from horrific and dangerous all the way to ingenious, even if they aren’t quite to “code.”...
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    Crisis management

    June 19, 2018
    It is how we deal with unexpected situations that can either make you a better businessman or one of the many short-lived company management executives we’ve all seen come and...
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    Optics: How you are perceived depends on point-of-view

    May 1, 2018
    The optics of a moment, photo, movie, speech or other incident do not appear the same to everyone.